Sparktweets
Lots of people tried out sparklines embedded in tweets after my post. I'm collecting some here.
A birder graphed his year list.
One man's perfect iTunes equalizer settings:
▅▇▆▅▂▃▃▅▅▇ Así es que me gusta poner el ecualizador en iTunes porque va perfecto para toda la música que escucho #sparktweetSpaces between the blocks work well with small datasets.
#Tigers #Sparktweet of the day: Verlander earned runs last 5 starts: ▅ ▅ ▅ ▅ ▁ [3 3 3 3 0 = 12]. Scherzer: ▃ ▃ ▁ ▇ ▁ [2 2 0 5 0 = 9]- Sports, unsurprisingly, are a good source of data for sparktweets. I really like this guy's variation, which visualizes wins and losses by the Cleveland Indians this season:
- David from the Data Collective applied his tool to the recent decline in housing prices.
▁▁▂▃▆▇▇▅▅▃ US home prices are still over Jan 2000 price, thanks @Zillow @StanHumphries. Src bit.ly/mgdbc6, tool bit.ly/iOlEAv #sparktweet- Scott tweeted Skype's valuations over time.
- I guess it was not so pleasant downtown today.
- And this made me laugh:
Sparktweets really took off after attracting notice from Andy Baio, Anil Dash, Jason Kottke, and John Gruber. Among my favorites was Disney's status bar, a clever, playful takeoff.
Loading #DisneyGiveaway, follow @Disney to participate and standby: ████░░░░░░░25%- This guy graphed his Nike+ data:
- The Australian Broadcasting Corporation tried it!
▅▃▆▃▃▇▅▁▂▂▁▁ Chart of past 12 months of the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, which was steady at 4.9 per cent in April. #sparktweet- So did, Time magazine, sort of:
▂▃▅ <-- This is a #sparktweet. Here's how you can make your own | http://ti.me/kZB7Sj (via @Techland)- This sparktweet actually taught me something new:
